Aimable Twahirwa

Aimable Twahirwa is an award-winning senior science journalist based in Kigali, Rwanda. A journalist for more than 25 years, he has covered a wide range of development-related issues in Rwanda, Central, West and East Africa, with a growing interest in wildlife, biodiversity, and nature by balancing scientific rigor with accessible narratives.

Before joining Mongabay as Central and West Africa staff writer, he published in-depth feature stories for regional and international media outlets and global news agencies. His work has appeared in Nature, Inter Press Service (IPS), AllAfrica, Thomson Reuters Foundation (AlertNet), SciDev.Net, and many other global platforms, where he contributed to long-term reporting projects presented across multimedia formats.

A grantee of both the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and the Louise Behan Reporting fellowship by the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ), Twahirwa has reported widely from across Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and Europe on issues related to climate change and biodiversity conservation. In 2022, he was an Excellence in Journalism Climate Change fellow at the Graduate School of Media and Communications of the Aga Khan University, Kenya.

He has also served as a media trainer and mentor for the Global Health Reporting Initiative of the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), the African Climate Change and Environment Reporting (ACCER) Academy, and as a mentor and associate in initiatives by the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) focusing on climate change solutions and ONE HEALTH reporting.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Conservation Agriculture | Renewable Energies | Biodiversity conservation | Mining | Indigenous communities

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From Kigali to the Congo Basin: Aimable Twahirwa’s path in environmental journalism